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For her newest iteration of Medium of Exchange, photographer and multimedia artist Sheida Soleimani charts a fragmented history of the relationship between OPEC nations and western political powers since the formation of the organization in the 1960s. She highlights the correlation between sovereign oil wealth and civil rights abuses, combining photographic tableaus alongside film and multimedia works. In addition to large scale photography, a tented film projection portrays theatrical interplay between caricatured OPEC Oil Ministers and the western government officials who together control …